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WASHER 0R SORUB'BER FOR GAS.

Patented. Nov. 29, 1892.

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UNITED STATES Y PATENT OFFICE.

JOSIAH CLEMENT CHANDLER, OF LONDON, ENGLAND.

WASHER OR SCRUBBER FOR GAS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 486,927, dated November 29, 1892.

Application filed $eptember 12, 1891- Serial No. 05,581. (N0 model.)

'2, 1889, in which the wetted surface against which the gas impinges is composed of bundles of laths.

According to my invention, instead of employing laths, I make use of boards having therein a number of saw cuts or slits for affording a large amount of wetted surface. In practice a number of such boards are advantageously made up into a bundle, suitable distance-pieces being placed between them.

To enable my invention to be fully understood, I will describe the same with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which-- Figures 1 and 2 are side and end views, respectively, of a bundle of my boards adapted for use in gas washing or scrubbing apparatus of the kind in which the gas passes horizontally through the same-as, for instance, in the apparatus described in the specification of Letters Patent No. 199,450, dated January 22,

1878. Fig. 3 isa sectional elevation showing how the said bundle may be held in position in the washing apparatus; and Fig. 4 is a section on the line a: as, Fig. 3. Figs. 5 and 6 are views similar to Figs. 1 and 2, respectively, showing the arrangement of the boards when the gas is caused to pass through them from the center toward the peripheryfor instance, as described in the specification of Letters Patent No. 206,736, dated August 6,1878. Figs. 7 and 8 are a sectional elevation and a longitudinal section showing how the bundles in this case may be held in position.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

a 0. indicate the boards; b b, the slits or saw cuts therein, leavingaseries of fingers 19'; cc, the distance-pieces between the boards, and d d bolts passing through the boards and through the distance-pieces and serving to clamp the whole together.

In practice I advantageously arrange a series of segmentally-shaped bundles, such as are shown in Figs. 1 and 5, to form disks, which are caused to revolve in order to retain the surfaces properly wetted in the usual wellknown manner. When the gas is to pass through the bundles in ahorizontal direction, the boards are arranged as shown in Figs. 1 and 2-that is to say, side by sideso that the gas will pass through the various slits in theboards.

As shown in Figs. 3 and 4, several bundles are clamped between pairs of arms a e to form a disk, the said arms being secured at their inner ends to a hub or bossf and at their outer ends connected by plates 9 g. h h are cross-bars bolted between the plates g g on opposite sides of the bundles in order to retain the said bundles in their proper positions between the arms.

In the arrangement shown in Figs. 5 and 6, which is adapted for use when the gas passes radially through the bundles forming the disk, the said bundles are-advantageously carried between two metal plates it and held in place by cross-bars jj and bolts k, as shown in Figs. 7 and 8.

Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim. is- I 1. A rcvoluble washer orscrubber for gas, consisting of a series'of boards, each made of a single piece of wood having a series of fingers b, extending in opposite directions from the center or body of the wood, as shown and described.

2. A rcvoluble washer or scrubber for gas, consisting of a series of bundles of boards arranged around a common center, as set forth, each board being made of a single piece of wood having a solid center and a series of fingers b, extending from the opposite edges to such solid portion.

JOSIAH CLEMENT CHANDLER.

Witnesses:

G. F. REDFERN, JOHN E. BOUSFIELD, Of the firm of G. F. Redfern d2 00., 4: South Street, Finsbury, London, Patent Agents. 

